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Grammar : Verb
Spell : rohv
Phonetic Transcription : roʊv

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Définition of rove

Origin :
  • "to wander with no fixed destination," 1530s (earliest sense was "to shoot arrows at a mark selected at pleasure or at random," late 15c.); possibly a Midlands dialectal variant of northern English and Scottish rave "to wander, stray," from Middle English raven, probably from Old Norse rafa "to wander, rove" (cf. rave (v.)). Influenced by rover, if not a back-formation from it. Related: Roved; roving.
  • verb wander
Example sentences :
  • Thus all concentrates: let us not rove; let us sit at home with the cause.
  • Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • As I was about to speak, however, he said suddenly: "Let's rove, man."
  • Extract from : « The Day of the Boomer Dukes » by Frederik Pohl
  • They do not by any means destroy the land over which they rove.
  • Extract from : « A Labrador Doctor » by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • But he didn't leave it until he had rove the new rope, and he got back all right.
  • Extract from : « Man Overboard! » by F(rancis) Marion Crawford
  • Never once did he allow his eyes to rove over to the table opposite.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys Under Canvas » by Arthur M. Winfield
  • Ropes were rove through the main, fore, and mizzen-yard-arms.
  • Extract from : « Will Weatherhelm » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • He will rove unless you tie him to a post, and he will whistle then.
  • Extract from : « Irish Fairy Tales » by James Stephens
  • At the mouth are two beckets or iron rings, through which the strop is rove.
  • Extract from : « Stories of the Ships » by Lewis R. Freeman
  • You seem to care for so little, and yet you rove about a distinct race.
  • Extract from : « The Romany Rye » by George Borrow
  • A thousand pieces of running-gear were to be rove and manned.
  • Extract from : « Pike & Cutlass » by George Gibbs

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